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He has been variously billed as "Alan Aynesworth," "Allan Aynesworth" and "Allan Aynsworth."[1][2] He performed the role of Algernon Moncrieff in the premiere production of The Importance of Being Earnest, later telling Oscar Wilde's biographer Hesketh Pearson that "In my fifty-three years of acting, I never remember a greater triumph than [that] first night."[3]